In Brief
The Internet browser is the user interface of the digital age. The three screens and a cloud computing world means that web workers demand new tools to consume information that re-use content and information in new ways to solve emerging business situations. Enterprise mashups employ point-and-click design tools to provide new ways of consuming information services without compromising security, systems continuity or master data management. To be useful for business, enterprise mashup solutions must support three key disciplines: the ability to gather data from disparate sources, to re-engineer business processes and the provide web workers with the usability tools to create their own portal experiences.
Agile development takes point-and-click authoring of web portal applications a stage further by providing IT professionals with a hybrid development environment that blends coding and scripting with point-and-click building blocks that enable analysts with only basic database knowledge and IT skills to build new business applications by ‘connecting, mashing and configuring’. Market leading integrated development environments (IDE’s) support Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM).
Benefits
Reduce/Avoid CostsCut the size of IT without compromising business continuity or IT innovation
Source and re-use data from across the enterprise and beyond to make web workers more productive and improve decision making
Cut IT costs and risks through agile development
Remove applications re-working and simulation costs
‘Virtualize’ computing platform to remove IT overheads
Productivity
Create an always on workforce with mobility and cloud access to business applications
Boost productivity by cutting travel and meeting costs
IT Modernization
Improve data governance and security (inclusive model)
De-skill applications development
Simplify user and group identity management
Lower IT operations costs with future-proof solutions
Challenges
For Business Leaders• Appreciating how to apply enterprise mashups for business benefit.
• Engineering organizational change: Securing constant process improvement by embedding IT competencies into process value and improvement teams.
For IT Leaders
• Identifying an enterprise mashup technology that supports an inclusive security model, integrates with SSO/Active Directory, provides perpetual applications version control and can scale exponentially without demanding comparative growth in IT support resources.
• Re-engineering the IT organization to embed IT competencies into process value and improvement teams.
